Since 1970 the Saldanha Bay region on the West Coast of the Western
Cape Province has been high on South Africa’s national development agenda.
The region has been struggling for years to meet the preconditions for ...

Little
is understood about the dispersion and movements of Palaearctic migrant raptors while wintering in southern Africa.
The high temporal and spatial resolution of GPS telemetry data provided the opportunity to describe ...

The effects of concentrations of fine particulate matter on urban populations have been gaining attention because fine particulate matter exposes the urban populace to health risks such as respiratory and cardiovascular ...

Biosphere reserves are an example of social-ecological systems that combine biodiversity conservation and socioeconomic development with knowledge generation and dissemination (both scientific and local). We review lessons ...

Studentification is a global phenomenon that has been prominent in urban geographical discourse since the large-scale expansion of higher education in the early 1990s. In many developed and developing world countries, ...

This paper reports on the use of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) thermal infrared (TIR) and Transformed Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (TNDVI) data to map summer surface temperature distribution in a portion of the ...

This study analysed road accident data for a five-year period on a route between Uitenhage and Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape (South Africa) to investigate the temporal patterns of animal-related accidents (ARAs). ...

One of the hallmark policies implemented post-apartheid, the Restitution
of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994, is a rights-based program aimed at addressing
the loss of land resulting from past racially discriminatory laws or ...

In the Global North, urban redevelopment through leisure and tourism interventions has been a keenly investigated research interface. These types of interventions, whether public, private, or in various combinations, have ...

Traditionally, to map environmental features using remote sensing, practitioners will use training data to
develop models on various satellite data sets using a number of classification approaches and use test
data to ...

The establishment of protected areas for wildlife conservation in Africa was motivated by a number of
different reasons (including hunting, recreation and wildlife conservation). The current reserve network
provides good ...

There is a high incidence of melanism among the cordylid lizards of Africa and it
was suggested that melanism has a thermoregulatory function in these species. One
prediction of the thermal melanism hypothesis would be ...